- Paperback: 264 pages
- Publisher: Pan (2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 033045322X
- ISBN-13: 978-0330453226
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 379,757 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As the parent of a child with Down's, I keep wondering if doctors don't exaggerate its debitating effects because.. it's one of the few disabilities they can diagnose before birth. Is there method in this (hypocritical) madness?
Mr. Merriman's wit and sanity are a refreshing change from the usual drivel written about Down's. His book is appropriately very funny.
Since our daughter's birth 14 years ago, we have endured 1) rude people (who stare) 2) polite people (who pretend our daughter is invisible) 3) patronizing people (a lot of whom annoyingly become special educators) who use the first person plural when speaking to her and 4) the occasional person whose mind is receptive to another person's reality. The most intelligent comment we have had about our daughter was from the father of one of her "normal" friends. He said "We have forced her to live in our world, to learn to speak our language. But we know nothing of the place she comes from, nor the language she speaks in secret to herself. We force her to cross the bridge to us, but we never bother to think what we might discover if we met her more than half-way. And who can say her universe is less interesting than ours?"
Mr. Merriman's book cracks open a door to a "condition" that is not so much a "debitating birth defect" as it is another set of values.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Only 7 weeks and 5 days have passed since I entered the 'Downs World' of parents, and nothing has been of more help and assistance than this book. I am not alone in what I thought when my daughter was born - Andy and Allie Merriman had similar thoughts. I had begun to question whether it would be wise to contact other parents in the 'Downs World', Andy Merriman voiced his own reservations and has assisted me in realising it will be to my daughters benefit if I do so. I'm just sorry I didn't hear his BBC programme, I'm sure it would have been as enlightening as this book. With tears in my eyes I thank you Mr Merriman, and will be passing this book on to my family to help them look forward to our future as a family with a very special new member.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This book was a real turning point for me when I read it a few months after our youngest daughter was born with Down's Syndrome.
It is nothing short of brilliant, heart-rending, funny, honest and true.
Thank you Andrew Merriman.
I have since been inspired to start a similarly positive and hopefully helpful blog of my own.
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It is nothing short of brilliant, heart-rending, funny, honest and true.
Thank you Andrew Merriman.
I have since been inspired to start a similarly positive and hopefully helpful blog of my own.
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